KOLKATA: : A two-degree dip in the maximum temperature on Friday from Thursday's high of 41.6°C did little to bring relief as soaring humidity pushed the real-feel temperature up to 49°C, the highest the city has seen so far ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaDARJEELING: The three Lok Sabha constituencies, Darjeeling, Balurghat and Raiganj, which went to polls on Friday recorded a dip in turnout compared to both 2019 polls and April 19 phase I polling. This, however, could not dampen the confidence ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaMOYNA (EAST MIDNAPORE)/KOLKATA: The body of an 18-year-old was found hanging at a paan shop in Bakcha's Goramahal on Thursday night, near his home. Dinbandhu Midya's mother said her son was a BJP worker and TMC was responsible for ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata/Malda: PM Narendra Modi on Friday attacked TMC for putting the “livelihood of 26,000 families” at stake after Calcutta HC’s school-job-scrap order.“TMC has played with the future of Bengal’s youths. Nearly 26,000 families’ income has stopped because of the ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Times of India has won big at International News Media Association (INMA) 2024, bagging six awards for its campaigns, including one for ‘I Am Kolkata’ for best use of generative AI in customer facing products. The campaigns ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Scottish Church Collegiate School in its 194th year opened its doors to girls in the Plus-II section on Friday, the birth anniversary of school founder Alexander Duff. The announcement came ahead of Higher Secondary admissions, which will start ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Feeling drowsy at work or while being out in the sun may indicate severe dehydration that may even lead to a heatstroke, warned doctors. The prevailing dry heat has led to several cases of heatstroke. Several hospitals have ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Less than 24 hours after a drive on Thursday led to plastic sheets being pulled down from hawker stalls along Chowringhee Road, hawkers strung up bedsheets and bed covers on Friday morning to shield themselves from the harsh ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: What is a safe total for Kolkata Knight Riders? The team management must be asking themselves after they went down to Punjab Kings by eight wickets even after putting up 261 for six, their best at Eden Gardens ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: An uncommon Indo-Pacific finless porpoise washed ashore on a beach in Digha last week, surprising tourists, foresters and conservationists.The dolphin-like animal, which had injuries on its head, likely caused by fishing trawler propellers, was identified by experts as ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday directed Malda District Primary Education Council to give appointments to 250 empanelled candidates from the 2009 DPSC list, a day after the court directed similar recruitment of empanelled candidates from the 2009 DPSC ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The reclaiming of the pond in Netaji Nagar’s Jorabagan by a Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) team suffered a temporary setback on Friday owing to resistance by a section of local residents who claimed to be owners of the ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose cast his vote in the morning on Friday at Polling booth no.75,Saraswati Vidyalaya in Thiruvananthapuram. Bose reached the polling booth alongwith wife Lakshmi Ananda Bose.Though Bengal Governor had the option to vote from ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Security was beefed up at Kolkata airport on Friday following a bomb threat alert received by the airport manager on his email that said there was a bomb planted at the airport and that it would blow off ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: On the occasion of autism awareness month an organisation that works on rehabilitation of individuals with neuro-developmental disabilities, has come up with an exhibition titled "A Journey Through Special Senses." Opened on Friday the two day exhibition attendees ...
27 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA/MAHISHADAL: CM Mamata Banerjee, in her first campaign rally in Tamluk where former Calcutta High Court judge Abhijit Ganguly is the BJP candidate, linked him directly to the current crisis involving the loss of nearly 26,000 jobs and called ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaHOOGHLY: Trinamool Serampore Lok Sabha candidate and outgoing MP Kalyan Banerjee on Thursday asked actor and Uttarpara TMC MLA Kanchan Mallick to step down from his campaign vehicle. Later, Banerjee said whenever women villagers saw Mallick, they reacted strongly ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Calcutta High Court has directed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to submit a report on the clashes that occurred during Ram Navami celebrations in West Bengal's Murshidabad district. The court's decision came in response to two Public ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKANTHI: An 18-year-old BJP activist was discovered deceased in a betel-leaf plantation located in Goramahal village, Mayna area of Purba Medinipur district West Bengal, according to police reports on Friday. The deceased, identified as Dinabondhu Middya, had been reported ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A day after Mamata Banerjee called Calcutta high court a "mahatirtha (pilgrimage site)" for BJP while stressing that HC could have "given some other advice" in the cash-for-jobs case instead of scrapping the appointment of 25,757 people by ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Several schoolteachers, who are set to lose their jobs following a Calcutta High Court order in the cash-for-jobs scam, are poll officials in the state's second phase of voting. While none of them relishes poll duty when their ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Supreme Court, striking down a Calcutta High Court order, has said a govt officer should be summoned to appear in court only in exceptional cases, that too after first arranging a hearing through video-conference, and after the court ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: At 41.6°C, the city on Thursday witnessed the hottest April day in 44 years and the second hottest in the last 50 years. The only April day in the last 50 years when the maximum temperature was higher ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: If most prominent Kolkata schools have rediscovered the virtues of offline education even amid the heatwave, hospitals are moving in the opposite direction. Many of them have started online consultation, which made its debut during the pandemic, so ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation and cops on Thursday conducted a surprise check at Esplanade and carried out a drive on the pavements along Jawaharlal Nehru Road, removing plastic sheets that hawkers there had been using to cover their ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Nearly the whole of Salt Lake, New Town, large parts of Sonarpur and some pockets in north and south Kolkata had a blackout on Thursday evening following a snag in a transmission line that tripped power supply. Initial ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: There has been a severe shortage of packaged curd in shops and outlets across the city with its demand going up amid the scorching heat. Not just that, interrupted supply of raw milk due to cattle falling sick ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Syed H Abbas- trained Ode To Nature runs with a good chance of winning the D.R.C. Managing Committee Juvenile Sprinters Cup in New Delhi on Friday. The son of Pretty Lights has been a consistent performer and will ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: She is “102 not out” with a zeal to cast her vote.Sarala Bala Dey was born when the British ruled India, but most of her memories are blurred now. TOI accompanied the EC members to her room in ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Several parts of Kolkata, particularly in the south, are now heavily dependent on tankers and packaged water to tide over the crisis triggered by the prolonged heat spell. In areas like Tollygunge, Jadavpur, Baghajatin and pockets of Prince ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Nearly 4,000 homes were registered in March 2024, 17% more than the number of homes registered in March 2023. The month also saw affordable homes of up to 500 sq ft make a strong comeback with a growth ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: It’s getting too close for comfort for the Kolkata Knight Riders. Their last two matches went all the way down to the wire with the hosts losing one and winning the other. Although the purple brigade is sitting ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata/Suri: In a first in Bengal, two BJP leaders have filed nominations for the Birbhum Lok Sabha seat.BJP had formally nominated former IPS officer Debashis Dhar from the seat. The second candidate to file his nomination — also on ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed first case in Sandeshkhali, West Bengal, concerning allegations of land grabbing and sexual assault against five influential individuals, as stated by officials on Thursday. The case revolves around a ...
26 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed her strong disapproval of the cancellation of over 25,000 school jobs, labeling it as 'gross injustice.' She alleged that it was a deliberate tactic by the BJP to prevent these job ...
25 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: If Covid made online education indispensable, the ongoing heatwave in Bengal four years later has shown how offline education has once again become fundamental. Several prominent schools have chosen to ignore govt's move to bring forward summer vacation ...
25 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: After a two-day break, the maximum temperature in Kolkata breached the 40°C mark on Wednesday again, leaving the city sizzling. The Met office has warned that the situation could get worse with the temperature predicted to inch towards ...
25 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Breaking his silence on the arrest of 26/11 suspect-turned-approver Rajaram Rege for carrying out a recce of his house and office, TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday attacked BJP, claiming: “They raided my helicopter using the I-T ...
25 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A school bus carrying students from The BSS School was stopped by traffic cops and the students were made to wait in the scorching afternoon heat for over 30 minutes near Dhalai Bridge on EM Bypass on Tuesday. ...
25 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: “Soujanya” and “subhechchha” (‘courtesy’ and ‘good wishes’) entered the fray ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in Balurghat with Trinamool’s actor-MP Dev taking a dig at BJP’s IT cell chief Amit Malviya for misinterpreting the two words. Dev ...
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